Once installed, your Windows 8 or 8.1-powered PC, or Mac running Windows 8/8.1 via Boot Camp, will be able to freely access any HFS or HFS+ formatted drive just like it was NTFS, FAT or exFAT – that means full read and write access, job done.
Paragon HFS+ for Windows 8/8.1 Free Edition is one of those applications that simply does what it says on the tin. Free read-only utilities exist, but if you wanted full access to a HFS+ drive, you’d have had to pay for it – until now. That’s because Apple only provides read-only drivers for accessing Mac-formatted drives on Boot Camp Windows installs on the Mac, while Windows itself comes with no support at all. If you’ve installed Windows using Boot Camp on a Mac, or you plug in an external drive that’s been set up on a Mac, chances are – at best – you only have limited access to any drive or partition that’s been formatted in the HFS+ format used by Apple Macs.
